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PAT McCRORY
GOVERNOR
GOLFDAY
2015
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, the golf industry is represented in every county ofNorth Carolina through the state's more than 520 courses; and
WHEREAS, in 2014, one of those courses - the famed Pinehurst No. 2 - created golfing history by hosting the first Men's and Women's
U.S. Open Championships over consecutive weeks on the same course; and
WHEREAS, those championships alone injected $240 million into the North Carolina economy and brought positive national and
international attention to the state; and
WHEREAS, even an economic boost of that magnitude is only a fraction of the state's golf economy, which a 2013 study by SRI
International showed was worth $2.3 billion in direct spending and $4.2 billion in total economic impact through indirect and induced spending;
and
WHEREAS, this economic impact - also benefits the tourism and hospitality industries - placed golf in the league of key industries,
such as scientific research and development ($3.4 billion), agricultural crops ($3.6 billion) and electronic components manufacturing ($3 .6 billion);
and
WHEREAS, the SRI International study showed the North Carolina golf industry provided jobs for nearly 53,000 North Carolinians and
generated total wage income of$1.3 billion; and
WHEREAS, some of those jobs are generated by leading golf industry suppliers including Syngenta (Greensboro), Bayer (Research
Triangle Park) and Jacobsen (Charlotte), which continue to headquarter their U.S. operations in North Carolina; and
WHEREAS, other major golf industry suppliers, such as John Deere - which recently rolled out the 500,000th mowing unit from its
manufacturing facility in Fuquay-Varina - also maintain significant presences in the state; and
WHEREAS, golf will return North Carolina to the international sporting spotlight with Quail Hollow in Charlotte hosting the 2017 PGA
Championship and the 2021 Presidents Cup; and
WHEREAS, this year alone, the PGA Tour, PGA Champions Tour and PGA Web.com Tour events in Cary, Charlotte, Davidson,
Greensboro and Raleigh will attract hundreds of thousands of spectators; and
WHEREAS, through those events and countless smaller tournaments across the state, golf contributes about $150 million to charitable
interests annually; and
WHEREAS, golfremains economically vital, environmentally responsible and socially beneficial to the people of the state of North
Carolina;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, PAT McCRORY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby proclaim April 22, 2015, as "GOLF
DAY" in North Carolina, and commend its observance to all citizens.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the Capitol in
Raleigh this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord two thousand and fifteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and thirty-ninth. · ·
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